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Facebook is getting more popular now in Indonesia, it has reached 645% growth rate last year! At a growth rate of 645% in 2008, Indonesia has been the fastest growing country on Facebook in Southeast Asia, outpacing growth in China, India, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. Surprisingly, the 831,000 Indonesians on Facebook are a small minority in their [...]

Thanks for all my readers who frequently come, read and leave comments here. It’s nice to talk with you here. I promise to keep writing and posting. Here is the Top 10 Posts during this year: Offbeat Guides: Create your own travel guide in five minutes! Twitter: Witnessing Obama in 140 characters Spot.us: Citizen-funded community journalism Five foreign bloggers join [...]

Twitter rocks! Two Indonesian Twitter people, Thomas Arie and Vetamandra just broke the news about earthquake at their hometown, Jogjakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. thomasarie tweeted at 13.45 pm: EARTHQUAKE in #jogjakarta vetamandra tweeted at 13.50 pm Barusan ada gempa cukup kencang di bantul yogyakarta! The country’s mainstream media, news portal Detik (at 14.27 pm) and Viva (at 14.33 pm) just [...]

Guest what? I was just discovered a post writing about Top 3 Twitterers of Each Country in the World based on Number of Followers –in which I am one of Top 3 Twitter People in Indonesia. W00t? Am I that hard-core Tweet people here? The blogger mentioned, “all these numbers below are live which means [...]

It was exciting to attend the big event like Nokia World 2008 here in Barcelona, Spain. Since I didn’t want to miss anything on the keynote addresses — which usually comes up with the important announcements — this morning, so I try to follow it enthusiastically. Yeah. I have two weapons with me to documentize the [...]

I was very excited visiting the Berlin Wall yesterday. The Berlin Wall was a physical barrier separating West and East Berlin until it was dismantled beginning in late 1989. The wall separated the city for 28 years and 1 day, from the day construction began on August 13, 1961. However, not entire wall has been destroyed [...]

Here is the official anouncement of the Deutsche Welle’s 2008 Best of the Blogs: The jury for the Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards has announced the winners in all 16 of the competition’s categories. Of the 11 finalists in the Best Weblog category, Generación Y, a Cuban blog written by Yoani Sanchez, claimed the Jury Prize [...]

The Mumbai attacks prove that citizen journalists could work and report faster than media mainstream. The reason is simple: they are everywhere; they have million of eyes and ears.  They are also with their mobile  devices — video-camera-equipped phones with the always-on Internet connections. No wonder we found the Mumbai unrest being captured on Twitter, a [...]

As I just tweeted before about my fellow jury member, from China, who prohibited from leaving the country to attend the event in Berlin, to get to know about this case, here is the official release from Deutsche Welle: Local authorities prevent the participation of a prominent Chinese citizen journalist in the international weblog awards, The [...]

Today, I will be starting my European trip. The destinations are: Berlin (Germany) and Barcelona (Spain). Yeah, two week trips with two destinations and two different events. I will be leaving for Frankfurt tonight and then fly to Berlin. Berlin My first destination is Berlin, the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a [...]